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November to 15 December 2012 7th FROM LAUSANNE
TO BEIJING BIENNIAL. This international
Fiber Art Biennale is planned again to take place
in Nantong city, Jiangsu Province, in
the first Chinese spinning mill in the history of
China. Chinese and foreign artists are
welcome to apply. The application time is
from 1 July to 15 July
2012.
Further details can be seen on the website http://www.chinafiberart.com.cnNo entree fee for foreigners. The
decision of evaluation will be sent to
the artists by the 15th of August 2012.
Contact person: Ms Liu Quanhua, Fiber Art Lab,
Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua
University, Haidian District
Beijing, China, Postcode: 100084; tel:
+86136210004831. International contact: Wang Mei,
email: may_zhe@hotmail.com - Official
Organiser: Prof. Lin Lecheng 010@163.com or fiberart@yahoo.cn; website:www.chinafiberart.com.cn - Application
deadline: 25 July
2012 (arrival date!)

11 to
14 October, 2012The renowned US
Quilter Nancy Crow will show her
exhibition Colour
Improvisations at the Knitting
& Stitching Show in London at
Alexandra Palace. Later this exhibition will be on
show at the German Textile Museum Tuch
+ Technik in Neumünster, Kleinflecken 1,
D-24534, Germany. All venues of this
travelling exhibition can be seen on the website,
http://www.color-improvisations.com

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October to 18 November 2012 22nd COMO
MINIARTEXTILThemed
Agorà, the 2012 edition of
this renowned judged Como exhibition will be held
at the usual venues around the town.
For further competition details and
the registration form visit the
website, www.miniartextil.it - Arte & Arte,
Via Pannilani 23, I-22100 Como; e-mail: artearte@miniartextil.it

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October to 17 November 2012 The exhibition Needle
Works on the subject of contemporary
trends in knitting, crocheting and embroidery, at
the Galerie Handwerk in Munich,
Max Joseph-Str. 4, D-80333 Munich, Germany.

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May to 16 September 2012 GLOBAL PAPER II,
juried exhibition, in two museums in the
Bavarian town of Deggendorf, is open
worldwide to artists specialised in paper.
Application details can be found on the
application form available on the internet. Application:
Birgitta Petschek-Sommer, Museen der
Stadt Deggendorf, Östlicher Stadtgraben
28, D-94469 Deggendorf; Tel:
+49-991/29 60 555; e-mail: museen@deggendorf.de - http://www.museen-deggendorf.de - Application
deadline: 27 Feb. 2012

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January to 26 August 2012 Gala Dress - Court
and Couture. The Amalienborg Museum,
Copenhagen http://dkks.dk/gala-dress
The exhibition displays a colourful and unique
selection of HM Queen Margrethe's most splendid
gala dresses from the Court's major occasions
from the 1960s to the present.

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May to 26 August 2012 TO SHOCK THE
BOURGEOIS: FUTURISM IN THE EYES OF A LAYMAN, at
the St. Petersburg Museum of Avant-Garde,
Matyushins House, Professor Popov Street
10. This exhibition is showing caricatures
depicting futurists and graphic chronicles of the
avant-garde movement in Russia. The futurists
themselves used these materials as an effective
means of propaganda of the new art and as
self-promotion.

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to 19 August 2012 Cross Roads - EQA COMPETION
The European Quilt Association (EQA) is
organizing an exhibition for the Festival of
Quilts in Birmingham, United Kingdom, with
applications via each of the quilt associations
that are members of the EQA. On the EQA
website the member organisations are
published: http://www.e-q-a.eu
The deadline for the different
organisation was between end
of May and the beginning of June 2012 (different for each
country).

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March to 12 August 2012 British Design
1948-2012 - Innovation in the Modern Age.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London www.vam.ac.uk

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May to 22 July 2012 Einmalig!- das
Unikat members of the group
"Angewandte und freie Kunst" of
GEDOC Heidelberg will show their works
at Textilsammlung Max Berk, Kurpfälzisches
Museum, Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen ,
Brahmsstr. 8, D-69118, Germany - http://www.museum-heidelberg.de

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June 2012 4th TRIENNIAL OF TEXTILE ART
IN SZOMBATHELY, HUNGARY the Cultural
Foundation for the TextileArt
of Budapest and the Art Gallery
of Szombathely are again organizing this
event. The event consists of three parts: 1.
Miniature Textile Triennial, 2. Flag Triennial,
and 3. Band Triennial. The deadline was the 5th
of Dec.2011. www.keptar.szombathely.hu - person in charge
at the Cultural Foundation for the Textile Art is
Judit Bányász: bjudit53@gmail.com

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May to 10 June 2012 14th MINITEXTILE EXHIBITION
IN BRATISLAVA, to the theme of
Banality and Grace, at the Gallery
SVU, Dostojevského rad 2, SK-81109
Bratislava, organized by the Slovak
Artists Association TXT. The deadline was 31 October 2011, the curator is
Silvia Federová, email: federova.silvia@gmail.com - http://www.txt.sk

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January to 5 June 2012 Golden Spider Silk,
Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Cromwell
Road, London SW7 2RL.This display showcases the
worlds largest pieces of cloth made
from spider silk. It includes a brocaded
shawl made from the silk of more than one million
female golden orb-weaver spiders
collected in the highlands of Madagascar,
as well as a cape on public display for the first
time. The display also features background
material and a short film revealing the
process. http://www.vam.ac.uk

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March to 6 May "The Stuff That
Matters. Textiles collected by Seth
Siegelaub for the Center for Social
Research on Old Textiles (CSROT). Seth
Siegelaub is the publisher of Bibliographica
Textilia Historiae. The exhibition will take
place at Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane,
London E1 7LS; email: info@ravenrow.org - www.ravenrow.orgwww.egressfoundation.net
The exhibition will feature almost 300 items from
a collection currently comprising around 650
works. It will include woven and printed
textiles, embroideries and costume, ranging from
fifth-century Coptic to Pre-columbian Peruvian
textiles, late medieval Asian and Islamic
textiles, and Renaissance to eighteenth-century
European silks and velvets.

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December 2011 to 1 April 2012 San Nicola,
Tiziano, il Merletto. Museo Diocesano, Piazza
Duomo 12, I-36100 Vicenza, Italy.The exhibition is dedicated to
St. Nicholas of Bari and to the donation of a precious
piece of lace madein Burano between 1930 and
1934. On display are also some works of art
coming from diocesan parishes depicting St.
Nicholas and an altarpiece by Titian
signed and dated 1563. http://www.vicenza.com/vetrina/museo-diocesano/profilo

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October 2011 to 26 February 2012Yvonne Wells:
Quilted Messages, The International
Quilt Study Center & Museum, 33rd and
Holdrege Streets, Lincoln, NE 68583-0838, USA, at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
http://www.quiltstudy.org/about_us/news/newsroom.html
It will introduce visitors to the quilts of
Yvonne Wells, an influential and prolific
contemporary folk artist. Wells is African
American, but does not use 'African American
quiltmaker' as her primary identity. For her, the
term glosses over the individual vision expressed
in her work. Instead, Wells calls herself an
artist who makes folk art and her medium is
quilts.

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September through January 7, 2012 - Daphne Guinness -
New York - Approximately 100 garments
and accessories from the personal collection of
Daphne Guinness will be featured in this
exhibition, along with clothes that she has
designed herself, a selection of her vertiginous
shoes, and her films, The Phenomenology
of the Body and Mnemosyne. The
exhibition will be co-curated by Daphne
Guinness and Valerie Steele (press
release) - Infos: The Museum at FIT museumatfit@museumatfit.pmailus.comhttp://fitnyc.edu/10861.asp